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For Patrick Reed, winning the World Golf Championships-Cadillac Championship last year gave his belief in his golf game a tremendous boost. Reed knew he was good, and was scorned by some after his victory when he said he was a top-5 player, but you had to look at the tournament from his perspective. As he noted Wednesday after a practice round on the Blue Monster at Trump National Doral, last year was the first time he played among the top 50 players in the world, including then No. 1 Tiger Woods, Bubba Watson and Jason Dufner. "To be able to actually play against them and have a lead going into Sunday and having Tiger in the group in front of me, having Bubba right there,...

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For Patrick Reed, winning the World Golf Championships-Cadillac Championship last year gave his belief in his golf game a tremendous boost.
Reed knew he was good, and was scorned by some after his victory when he said he was a top-5 player, but you had...

When: Thursday through Sunday
Where: The 7,110-yard, par-70 Champion Course at PGA National Resort & Spa in Palm Beach Gardens.
Who: The 144-player field has 16 of the top 25 players in the world rankings, including No. 1 Rory McIlroy, Sergio Garcia...

Rickie Fowler is the latest PGA Tour standout to commit to next week's star-studded Honda Classic.
The world's 12th-ranked player, Fowler, of Jupiter, joins a field that features 16 of the top 25 players in the world, including No. 1 Rory McIlroy.
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The announcement that fans of the Honda Classic are waiting for was not forthcoming at Monday's news conference at PGA National Resort & Spa.
Tiger Woods has still not committed to playing in the tournament, which is Feb. 26-March 1 on PGA National's...

PHILADELPHIA -- There was not much change to the men's world rankings as there were just two changes inside the top 20 this week.
Rory McIlroy finished the year as the No. 1 ranked player as he holds a comfortable lead atop the rankings.
Henrik Stenson,...

Like a debutante being presented to proper society, Tiger Woods will unveil himself this week at Isleworth Golf & Country Club.
Yes, he's a 38-year-old male whose name already is familiar to proper and improper societies around the globe. But Woods...

A few months' rest seems to have done Tiger Woods a world of good.
Woods and his troublesome back are scheduled to return to competitive golf later this week at the Hero World Challenge, which benefits Woods' charity foundation.
"I feel...

The second day of the Ryder Cup started with a historic performance.
In the first morning fourball match, Justin Rose and Henrik Stenson defeated Bubba Watson and Matt Kuchar, 3 and 2, with all four golfers setting records.
The match featured a combined...

There wasn't much that Tom Watson could say to his players.
So, after a dispiriting afternoon at the Ryder Cup, the U.S. captain planned to hold only a short team meeting.
"They are going to be pretty bushed," Watson explained. "I'm going...

— Second-guessing ranks as a time-honored tradition at the Ryder Cup, and team captains face most of the scrutiny.
On Friday, the start of competition at Gleneagles, U.S. captain Tom Watson opened himself up to criticism on two fronts.
The biggest...

— Morning dawned clear and blue on the first day of the Ryder Cup and, for a few hours at least, the prospects for the U.S. team appeared equally sunny.
But after the Americans dashed to an early lead, the skies darkened and the Europeans reasserted...

PINEHURST, N.C. -- The 114th U.S. Open begins Thursday morning at Pinehurst No. 2 in the sand hills of North Carolina. A 156-player field will attack a par-70 course that has so many unique challenges throughout.
As a primer for the start of the...

PINEHURST, N.C. — Bubba Watson’s welcome-to-Pinehurst moment came on the first hole Tuesday.
Playing a morning practice round on a sweltering day, Watson had 184 yards in. He chose an 8-iron — that’s not a typo — and landed his ball on the center of...

PINEHURST, N.C. – Temperatures are rising in the sandhills of North Carolina. Highs for Thursday’s opening round of the U.S. Open at Pinehurst No. 2 are projected to top off at 88 degrees, according to the National Weather Service.
As if the demands of a...

Much has changed in golf since they last played the British Open at Royal Liverpool here in 2006.
Or has it?
If you can harken back, that's the year where rainy, stormy, chilly western England wasn't rainy, stormy and chilly. It was none of the...

Tiger Woods announced he has parted ways with swing coach Sean Foley four years after the two began working together.
"I'd like to thank Sean for his help as my coach and for his friendship," Woods said in a statement Monday. "Sean is...

AKRON, Ohio -- Rory McIlroy birdied four of the first five holes on Sunday to grab the lead, and he went on to win the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational by two strokes.
McIlroy closed with his second straight 4-under 66 to end at 15-under-par 265. The win...

Tiger Woods showed signs of a positive recovery Thursday at the Bridgestone Invitational.
Not just from back surgery, but from making bogeys.
Woods bounced back with birdies all three times that he made mistakes, opening with a two-under-par 68 on a...

Lou Holtz started playing golf because it was a way for football coaches to glad-hand potential donors. He eventually became good enough at the game to lie about how good he really is.
Still, the best advice the former Notre Dame football coach...

Tiger Woods has split up with swing coach Sean Foley after a four-year partnership, the 14-times golf major winner said on Monday.
The former world number one is sidelined with a back injury and does not plan to play again until his World Challenge...